Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen used a speech billed as a prelude to next week’s annual World Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings to criticize Republican Presidential candidate and former President Trump’s threats of higher tariffs.
“Calls for walling America off with high tariffs on friends and competitors alike or by treating even our closest allies as transactional partners are deeply misguided,” she said in remarks Thursday to the Council on Foreign Relations.
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